NOTICE

DEFERMENT OF EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT
SURVEY (EUS) - 2020 - 2021

The Fiji Bureau of Statistics wishes to advise the applicants for the Project vacancies of the Employment and Unemployment Survey (EUS) scheduled to run from August 2020 - August 2021, that the survey has been deferred to start from August 2021 - August 2022 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic that is currently facing our nation.
As such, the recruitment process for all EUS project vacancies advertised on 22nd February 2020 on the Fiji Sun is now cancelled until further notice.
Any inconvenience caused is regretted.

2019-20 Household Income and Expenditure Survey [Preliminary Release]fbosicon2

 

Census 2017 of Population & Housing

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An Adobe Acrobat file 2017_Population_and_Housing_Census_Release_1 471.91 KB
An Adobe Acrobat file 2017_Population_and_Housing_Census_Release_2 7.39 MB
An Adobe Acrobat file 2017_Population_and_Housing_Census_Release_3 18.31 MB

The final count of 2017 Census of Population now stands as follows:

  • Total Fiji - 884,887
  • Urban- 494,252
  • Rural - 390,635 

 

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Census 2007 of Population & Housing 

The final count of 2007 Census of Population stood as follows:

  • Total Fiji - 837,271
  • iTaukei - 475,739
  • Indo Fijians - 313,798
  • Others - 47,734

Census of population

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International Merchandise Trade Statistics - November 2020fbosicon2

Provisional data for November 2020  was :

  • total imports $292.6 million
  • total exports $131.9 million

The November 2020 trade deficit amounted to $160.7 million compared to $126.1 million a month earlier (October).

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Provisional Visitor Arrivals - January 2021fbosicon2

Provisional numbers show that visitor arrivals for January 2021 totaled 1,011. In comparison, in 2020, visitor arrival numbers for January stood at 65,386. Similar to the December 2020 numbers, this decrease is attributed to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions on international travel.

Of the 1,011 visitors, 550 came by air while 461 came by sea. The sea arrivals were mostly seamen on fishing vessels.

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Consumer Price Index - February 2021fbosicon2

The All Items CPI for the month of February registered an increase of 2.0 percent over January 2021 [112.3] and stands at 114.6.

Details of price changes between January 2021 and February 2021 by expenditure class are as follows:

  • FOOD AND NON ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES:+6.3%
  • ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, TOBACCO AND NARCOTICS:-1.4%
  • HOUSING, WATER, ELECTRICITY, GAS AND OTHER FUELS:-0.1%
  • TRANSPORT: +0.8%

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CONSTRUCTION SURVEY - September Quarter 2020fbosicon2

  • Total estimated value of work put-in-place was $119.9 million for the September quarter of 2020.
  • New building and capital repairs: 53.9 %
  • Current Repairs and Maintenance: 9.2 %
  • Civil Engineering Works: 36.9%

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